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1)., L. S & T. T. HOLDAWAY.

LAND FURROWER AND ROLLER.

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DA Vii) ll'OLliAlVAY, LEVI S. HOLDAXVAY, AND THOMAS T. IIOLDDQVAY, OF PRO VO CITY, UTAH TERRITORY.-

LAND FURROWER AND ROLLEF.

..:-Pi 'lGiiE.iiCAi 3ZOET forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,850, dated August 19, 1884.

Application filed February 11. 1881.

To (5Z3 whom it 71mg concern.-

le it known that we, DAVID I-IOLDAWAY, LEVI S. HO'LDAWAY, and THOMAS T. 110m)- AWAY, all of Provo City, in the county and Territory of Utah, have invented a new and Improved Combined Land Furrower and Roll er, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to improvements in land furrowers and rollers; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to hehad to the accompanying drawings, il'orming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference in 'dicate corres mmling parts in both figures.

Figure 1 represents a partly broken plan of a machine embodying our invention, and Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

A the draft bar or pole of the machine, to the opposite sides of which are pivoted, as at I) 1), side arms, 13 B, constructed to rise and spread outward in the rear, where they are attached to opposite end bearings, G, in which the roller-shaft c is hung and rotates.

D is a front cross-board, mounted on and se cured to the forward portion of the raised parts of the arms 13 B, at a suitable distance from a large roller, E, arranged to run upon or with the shaft 0 in the rear of the machine, said roller extending the whole distance, or thereabout, between the rear spread-out portions of the arms B B, and having two or more beads or ilanges, c e, on its body in line with a corresponding number of shovel-plows, G G, arranged in front of the roller and at anysuitable distance apart. These plows have their shanks pivoted, as at ff, to the sides of the draft-bar, and are capable of being readily raised or lowered as required by the driver from his seat H, while the machine is in motion, said seat being of any suitable shape and construction, and being mounted on or carried by the roller-bearings (J.

Secured on or to the cross-board D is a footboard, I, for the drivers feet, which, as well as the seat, is made removable.

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The plows G G are raised or lowered, as required, by means of a hand-lever, J, within easy reach of the driver on his seat, said lever being fast on a lower cross-shaft, 1, having arms 7i 71 that are connected by links '6 i with clips i, supporting the shanks of the plows, and arranged on the ends of a cross-bar, 8, carried by the draft-bar, whereby the plows are laterally stiffened and prevented from being turned to either side should they strike a root or stone.

Connected with the lever J is a locking-bolt, 7;, arranged to engage with a toothed sector, Z, and controlled by a locking'spring, m, and relca-singlever n, for holding the plows at any desired height as the same are adjusted by the lever J, the supplementary lover it also being within easy reach of the driver from his seat.

The beads or flanges e c on the roller will serve most effectually to pulverize any clods or lumps turned up by the plows and having a tendency to roll back into the furrows. Said roller also gives a perfectly smooth and even finish.

\Ve are aware that rollers provided with flanges or beads are old, and we are also aware that it is not new to journal a roller in aframc pivoted to and in the rear of a harrow, and we thereforedo not claim such inventions.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with the draft bar or pole A and the plows G, of the diverging arms B, having their forward ends pivoted to the said draft bar or pole, and provided with bearings at their rear ends, and the roller E, jonrnaled in the said bearings, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with the draft bar or pole A, the plows G, pivoted to the draft bar or p ole, and means, substantially as described, for raising and lowering the plows, of the pivoted arms 13, provided with the bearings C, and the roller E, provided with the heads 0, corresponding in number with the plows, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The combination of the pivoted plows G,

anism for looking the plows and their adjust- IO A ing-level', essentially as specified.

DAVID HOLDAWVAY.

in beads 01' flanges e arran ed in relation T 5 with said plows as deshribedfa drivers seat AY mounted upon said bearings, the hand-lever J, rook-shaft g, arins h h, and links z i, with NVitnesses: their attached clips '13 i, and cross-bar s, for JOHN XV. TURNER, adjusting and holding the plows, and mechl XV. H. BROWN. 

